Been trying for better part of a week now to get AHK to read gain from A1 but i'm stuck and i hope some one here can spot the issue. No one on the AHK forum have replied to my cry for help so i hope i have better luck

The short explanation is that i'm initializing a float with -35.0currently i've set the hotkeys Vol++ and Vol- to run a function that should read the gain value and display a message box with the value. but even tho i change the value from voicemeeter GUI and try to update it again, it's still the initialized value, it's not changing at any point